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White Cat (Curse Workers, #1)
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avg rating 3.79 — 50,952 ratings — published 2010
Red Glove (Curse Workers, #2)
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avg rating 3.94 — 25,387 ratings — published 2011
The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentleman Bastard, #1)
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avg rating 4.30 — 342,418 ratings — published 2006
First Lie Wins (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 797,355 ratings — published 2024
Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1)
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avg rating 4.46 — 1,156,993 ratings — published 2015
The Big Con: The Story of the Confidence Man (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.82 — 1,259 ratings — published 1940
The Heist (Fox and O'Hare, #1)
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avg rating 3.85 — 58,212 ratings — published 2013
Heist Society (Heist Society, #1)
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avg rating 3.92 — 95,140 ratings — published 2010
Nine Goblins: A Tale of Low Fantasy and High Mischief (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.21 — 6,049 ratings — published 2013
The Lies I Tell (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 98,167 ratings — published 2022
A Hacker's Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and How to Bend them Back (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.68 — 1,250 ratings — published 2023
The Girls I've Been (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.03 — 54,342 ratings — published 2021
Pretty Things (ebook)
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avg rating 3.89 — 89,397 ratings — published 2020
Clinical Operative Dentistry Principles and Practice (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.41 — 51 ratings — published
Priceless: How I Went Undercover to Rescue the World's Stolen Treasures (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.83 — 10,366 ratings — published 2010
Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.93 — 6,687 ratings — published 2009
Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)
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avg rating 4.00 — 402,456 ratings — published 2019
The Wicked King (The Folk of the Air, #2)
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avg rating 4.27 — 1,076,995 ratings — published 2019
Vicious (Villains, #1)
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avg rating 4.18 — 323,477 ratings — published 2013
Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2)
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avg rating 4.57 — 771,923 ratings — published 2016
A Darker Shade of Magic (Shades of Magic, #1)
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avg rating 4.03 — 432,128 ratings — published 2015
Black Heart (Curse Workers, #3)
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avg rating 4.05 — 19,501 ratings — published 2012
Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 62,429 ratings — published 1980
The Norman Podhoretz Reader: A Selection of His Writings from the 1950s through the 1990s (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.94 — 18 ratings — published 2003
The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 301 ratings — published 1976
The Coming of Post-Industrial Society: A Venture in Social Forecasting (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.63 — 150 ratings — published 1973
The European New Right - A Shi'a Response: A Radical Critique of Alexander Dugin, E. Michael Jones, and Alain de Benoist (Hardcover)
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avg rating 2.91 — 11 ratings — published
The Making of the American Mind: The Story of our Declaration of Independence (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.75 — 4 ratings — published 2025
Al Qaeda and What It Means to Be Modern (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.73 — 500 ratings — published 2003
Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.96 — 1,318 ratings — published
The Immortalization Commission: Science and the Strange Quest to Cheat Death (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.61 — 447 ratings — published 2011
The Silence of Animals: On Progress and Other Modern Myths (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.90 — 1,397 ratings — published 2013
The Soul of the Marionette: A Short Inquiry into Human Freedom (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.84 — 1,275 ratings — published 2015
Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 5,004 ratings — published 2002
False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 529 ratings — published 1998
Two Faces of Liberalism (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 160 ratings — published 2000
The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.27 — 2,042 ratings — published 1943
Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 533 ratings — published 2024
Enlightenment's Wake: Politics and Culture at the Close of the Modern Age (Routledge Classics)
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avg rating 3.90 — 135 ratings — published 1995
Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.52 — 980 ratings — published 2019
The New Leviathans: Thoughts After Liberalism (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.43 — 952 ratings — published
St Petersburg Dialogues: Or Conversations on the Temporal Government of Providence (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 99 ratings — published 1821
American Conservatism: Reclaiming an Intellectual Tradition (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.85 — 54 ratings — published
Rationalism in Politics and other essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 309 ratings — published 1962
Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.55 — 413 ratings — published
The Generative Principle of Political Constitutions (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 114 ratings — published 1814
The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 1,745 ratings — published 1953
Gentle Regrets: Thoughts from a Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 168 ratings — published 2006
“You might very well have the requisite players, pros, and cons , but then again, you might have too many. If it’s 30 minutes in and you still can’t figure out what the issue is, it’s time to go: too many issues. Someone who cares more than you needs to distill this chaos down to a coherent statement so the pros and cons can argue about one thing.”
― Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager
― Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager
“Tell the truth, be cordial and reasonable – put aside the worry of what others will think – and expose the consequences of your act naturally.”
“সত্য বলুন, সৌহার্দ্যপূর্ণ এবং যুক্তিসঙ্গত হোন – অন্যরা কী ভাববে তার উদ্বেগকে একপাশে রাখুন – এবং স্বাভাবিকভাবে আপনার কাজের ফলাফল প্রকাশ করুন।”
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“সত্য বলুন, সৌহার্দ্যপূর্ণ এবং যুক্তিসঙ্গত হোন – অন্যরা কী ভাববে তার উদ্বেগকে একপাশে রাখুন – এবং স্বাভাবিকভাবে আপনার কাজের ফলাফল প্রকাশ করুন।”
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